Party at the Wonderland Tomorrow : Sakura Review III : Revenge of Willie Davis

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The Wonderland Ballroom

1101 Kenyon, Washington, DC 20010

Please join Sakura Review as we launch our third issue at the Wonderland Ballroom on Saturday, April 28th at 7PM!

We’re seriously excited about the new issue, so come check it out and hear four of our current contributors –JOE BUETER, WILLIE DAVIS, DAN GUTSTEIN, and MICHAEL SHEEHAN — read their poetry and fiction.

The reading starts at 7PM, but we’ll be there for drinks as early as 6:30PM. It should be a real (literary) party.

Also, if you haven’t yet, visit our website (www.sakurareview.com) to submit your work and order current/back issues. Volume III includes new poetry and fiction by Gerard Beirne, Laura Donnelly, and Brad Richard, among many others.

Reader Bios:

JOE BUETER is a former poetry editor of Ecotone, a journal published at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he graduated with an MFA in poetry. His poetry has been published in Cave Wall, Nashville Review, Parcel, Canteen, and others. He lives and writes in Takoma Park, MD.

WILLIE DAVIS is the winner of The Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize judged by Zadie Smith and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize judged by Amy Hempel. His fiction has appeared in the Guardian, The Kenyon Review, storySouth, Urbanite magazine, and specs among other places.

DAN GUTSTEIN’s books include _non/fiction_ (Edge, 2010) and _Bloodcoal & Honey_ (WWPH, 2011). His writing has appeared in more than 70 publications including Best American Poetry. He lives in Washington, DC and works at Maryland Institute College of Art.

MICHAEL SHEEHAN is a graduate of the University of Arizona’s MFA program and the St. John’s College Graduate Institute, and a former fellow of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He is the reviews editor and an assistant fiction editor for DIAGRAM. He is working on a novel about a has-been’s would-be rock opera, an Iraq War veteran, and a recovering-alcoholic evangelical, among other things.

6 AMAZON REVIEWS OF THE CONTAINER STORE: MORE NEEDED

Here is a sampling of the fine to very fine reviews of The Container Store Vols I & II by Joe Hall & Chad Hardy on Amazon.com.

As a consumer, it is incumbent upon you to articulate how this product did or did not meet your expectations. Please write your own review.

Dirk says: “As someone with serious storage needs (I live in a Dutch metropolis most of the year), I have to say this really is as low on the totem pole as one can get. I showed up around a week ago in search of a container to store some of the excess medical supplies I’ve accrued through various conferences over the past year. The exterior of the store should have been enough of a hint. Half the lights in the sign were out, and someone had graffiti-ed the entry display window.”

Tom raves, “Book gave me magic powers based on almost certainly intentional misinterpretation of wishes. Would not recommend. On plus side, poems pretty good.”

MS notes, “As my wife and I passed it–I don’t, now, remember where we were going, only that we didn’t want to go anywhere–there was a woman standing in front of the Container Store, wearing an ascot and a red blazer affixed with a large pendant of tangled gold, arguing with her husband, a short fist of a man. She spoke English in an accent I’ll guess was Armenian, and he did too, and their conversation went like this:

WIFE: We have to go to the Container Store to purchase some organizational materials.
HUSBAND: What?
WIFE: We have to go to the Container Store to purchase some organizational materials.
HUSBAND: What?

Etc.”

Mr. Ditchhook says about the author, “I tolerate such money-grubbing among my more destitute friends (as is plain to see) but abhor it in ultra-rich strangers. However, at this stage Joe is taxing my patience by selling out to those Arkansas bullies. So, buy this book– or these books– if only to burn them outside your next Occupy Walmart protest.”

And R. St Lawrence from Minneapolis lets the world know, “So then, naturally, I ask if she’ll set one aside for me for an hour til I get there. She says, “Our system is not set up to do that.” I tell her that I’ve never head of a store that wouldn’t hold something for a customer for an hour, and again she says, “We have such high volume, our system just isn’t set up to do that.” Huh? Pottery Barn and pretty much every other store will do that. I told her that it doesn’t even involve “the system,” since all she has to do is take one and stick it behind the counter, and again she says, like some kind of robot, “Our system is not set up to do that.”"

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